The Greek suffix "-- oid" refers to having the appearance without the reality, for example, the anthropoid apes look a lot like humans "anthro --", but are not members of the human species, thus "-- oid".

On the surface his approach is scientific and slightly Dawkins-oid: in Cracked he briskly locates the source of addiction in “a tiny region of the brain called the nucleus accumbens,” and suggests that the emotional dissociation of the trauma victim is “an evolutionary remnant of the risky strategy of feigning death.”

And notwithstanding her resume as parks guru at the county, why did Israel run with the Cathy Allen crowd (who worked for both McKenna and Doug Sutherland in 2008 -- www. thestranger.com/seattle/Content? oid = 703427); not very green. joey